Word: arab
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While he was consolidating his revolution at home, Khomeini was seeking to extend it to other nations. Iraq attacked Iran across the Shatt al-Arab in September 1980 after Khomeini called for an uprising of Iraqi Shi'ites and fomented skirmishes along the border. Iranian forces blunted the Iraqi offensive, and two months after the war began, the conflict was largely stalemated. After years of fighting, Tehran lost all hope of victory when Iraq stopped an Iranian drive for the port city of Basra in early 1987; a year later, Iraq began the offensive that eventually brought Iran...
...friend and fellow student of Arab culture, Sandra Williams '89-'90, says, "Trig is just never afraid of being himself and being outspoken and kind of wild." But she adds that he keeps down his references to gay culture among SAS members. "Some come from very traditional Arab families," she notes...
...grew up in a family that wanted nothing more than to forget," says Tarazi. His mother "felt that being Palestinian was like a disease, that you try not to give it to your children," he recalls. Tarazi thought for many years that his family was Arab simply because he spoke Arabic at home...
Tarazi spent the fall semester of 1987 studying in Cairo, where he says he realized Palestinians could count on little help from their Arab neighbors...
Tarazi says that view was one reason why heplayed a Jewish character in a campus productionof The Diary of Anne Frank. "I wantedpeople to know that you can be pro-Palestinian,pro-Arab, and not be a Nazi," he says. However,Tarazi adds, "Just because one group has beenpersecuted in the past does not give them theright to persecute in the present...